Prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel Announces 2023 Laureates (VIDEO)
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Three young scientists at leading research institutions in Israel will each be awarded US$100,000 for their groundbreaking scientific research. • Shai Carmi, PhD - (Life Sciences) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Recognized for fundamental contributions to the fields of population and medical genetics. In medical genetics, he reported the first evaluations of a new technology for genetic testing of preimplantation embryos for complex (adult) diseases and traits. Through his groundbreaking work in population genetics, he has generated new insights on the demographic history of medieval Ashkenazi Jews • Rina Rosenzweig, PhD (Chemistry) - Weizmann Institute of Science – Recognized for discovering the regulatory mechanism by which a particular class of proteins, “chaperones”, drive the innate ability of our cells to prevent and reverse protein aggregation—a phenomenon associated with many neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases. Harnessing and amplifying natural methods to reverse protein aggregation in cells could pave the way for treatments for these conditions. • Zvika Brakerski, PhD (Physical Sciences & Engineering) - Weizmann Institute of Science – Recognized for developing the first efficient encryption algorithm that allows cloud computers to perform computations on encrypted data without the need to first decrypt them. His algorithm has enormous potential to improve the security of cloud computing. In addition, he has also developed new cryptography algorithms to verify the output of quantum computations.
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